🇪🇺🌳 Last week in climate (#76) by ClimateU
7 closed rounds, 10 upcoming rounds, news, jobs and events.
Good morning 🌳
Today, we'll cover last week's:
💰 closed rounds (7),
💸 upcoming rounds (10),
💼 new jobs,
📰 climate news, and
🗓 events.
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💰 Closed Rounds (Europe)
🇩🇪 The Landbanking Group - $11M Seed
📍 Munich, Germany
💸 Making nature an asset.
Investors: 4P Capital, Alexa Firmenich, Andre Hoffmann, BonVenture, Fabian Strüngmann, Jan-Hendrik Goldbeck, Planet A Ventures, Prince Maximilian, The SUN Institute for Environment & Sustainability, Vanagon Ventures
🇱🇺 Circu Li-ion - €9M Seed
📍 Luxemburg
🏭 Automated battery & bell upcycling.
Investors: BonVenture
🇵🇱 Ecobean - €7M Grant
📍 Warsaw, Poland
🍴 Helps reduce coffee waste.
Investors: Polish Agency for Enterprise Development
🇹🇷 Gozen Bioworks - $3M Seed
📍 Istanbul, Turkey
🏭 Material science and design company.
Investors: Happiness Capital
🇫🇮 Montinutra - €2M Seed
📍 Kuhmo, Finland
🌳 Bioactive products from forest industry side streams.
Investors: Metsa Spring
🇫🇷 Amatera - €2M Pre-Seed
📍 Paris, France
🍴 Creating cleaner & greener coffee.
Investors: AgFunder, Exceptional Ventures, Joyance Partners, Lara Nuchowicz, Mudcake (prev. Trellis Road), Nicolas Morin-Forest, PINC, Snaw Ventures
🇬🇧 Net Zero Technology Centre - £200k Grant
📍 Aberdeen, United Kingdom
💡 Researches and develops zero-emission technologies.
Investors: Scottish Government
💸 Upcoming Rounds
Currently, 133 companies are fundraising. Investors, corporates, and service providers can access all rounds and companies via the platform.
10 upcoming rounds have been announced in October:
🇬🇧 Angel - 2024 Q1 (💡 Climate Education)
🇬🇧 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q4 (⚡️ Energy Efficiency)
🇬🇧 Pre-Seed - 2024 Q1 (🍴 Food Waste)
🇩🇰 Seed - 2023 Q4 (🏗 Construction Software)
🇩🇪 Seed - 2024 Q1 (💸 Climate Investing)
🇫🇷 Seed - 2023 Q3 (🧑🌾 Earth Observation)
🇨🇭🇫🇷 Seed - 2023 Q4 (💨 Nature-Based CC)
🇩🇪🇹🇷 Seed - 2024 Q1 (⚡️ Energy Software & Analytics)
🇳🇴 Seed - 2024 Q1 (🚗 Aviation)
🇦🇹 Seed - 2023 Q4 (⚡️ Wind Energy)
💼 New Jobs
Last week, 1,489 new jobs were posted on the ClimateU job board and were sent to our 5k+ signed-up talents.
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📰 Climate News
⚡️ Shell boss set to cut jobs from low-carbon division
⚡️ Global energy agency sees "beginning of the end" of fossil fuels
⚡️ BP Ventures to put 90% of investments into green tech
🚎 Electric plane lands in Florida for Air Force testing after 2,000-mile journey
🚎 DHL & World Energy agree on partnership to speed up aviation decarbonization
🧑🌾 UK meat consumption at lowest level
🧑🌾 Oatly Calls for Climate Labelling in the UK
💸 Switzerland sets its sights on combatting greenwashing in finance
💸 Sustainable innovation accelerator launches in Manchester
💡 Overview of 48 carbon certification standards
💡 50+ Sub Saharan African ClimateTech Startups to Watch
🌳 The state of nature tech
🌳 Home countries of major rainforests agree to work together to save them
🏭 eBay and wrap launch circular change council
🗓 Upcoming Events
After this week
🇬🇧 Climate Techies London Quarterly Breakfast
🇦🇹 Discover Vienna: Climate Tech
🌎 ClimateTech Founders Summit 2023
🇬🇧 Scaling ClimateTech Innovation in the Corporate World
🇵🇹 Urban Impact Pitch Competition
🇫🇷 Climate Techies Paris with Plug and Play
🇨🇭 Climate Techies Zurich Drinks
That’s it for this week!
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